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What are some items that really aren't worth paying the expensive version for?
  • I guess with all things, depends on the financial position of the customer.

    If you're stretching yourself to get any phone, then yeah, diminishing returns for forking out $800+ for a flagship.

    That being said I've owned multiple phones in each price category, and can say that the best phones are unfortunately among the most expensive.

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    And we pay 10% of our income for the privilege.
  • Speaking of "paying 10% for the privilege", one of the things irked me was my dad's insistence that tithes had to be monetary. Per him, volunteer work didn't count.

    I was roped into running the computer, or doing the sound, for all 5 services Saturday + Sunday, plus practice before hand. 16 hour commitment twice a month.

    My day job was only 20 hours/wk back then, so in terms of time, my volunteer work was ~30% of all my work. Yet my dad still insisted I payed 10% of the taxed cash I received...

    That was one of many "cuts" in my "death by 1000" for being religious.

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    Too damn high
  • Two things:

    1. see if your power provider offers an "equal pay" plan, where your payments are normalized over 12 months. This provides consistency.

    2. Budget Budget Budget! Keep track of your monthly income and expenses, and plug this equal pay into it.


    Often times your power company will let you do equal pay before having 12 months of usage history.

    The one thing is that if you use more than you're paying for, you have to pay the overage at the end of the 12-month cycle, AND your payments increase. So, don't get used to leaving all the lights on!

    On the flip side, if you use less, you'll either get a refund or accumulate credits which will lower your next year's payments.

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    1.8 Million Barrels of Oil a Day Avoided from Electric Vehicles
  • Actually, in 2022 there were 94m barrels produced globally per day. So this is 2%. Statistically, not insignificant. Hopefully it'll continue to grow rapidly.

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    hey - trying to switch from Chrome to Firefox, what are your recommended extensions and/or quality of life addins, etc?
  • It's the an extension for Google Passwords? It's my password manager for all my devices.

    I would love to switch to Firefox, but I don't want to open chrome every time I need a to retrieve/save a password.

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    15 years of Android memories – When did you get your first Android phone?
  • My dad had the T-Mobile G1; if I recall, first ever commercial available Android phone!

    That was handed down to me after a couple years. It has as much chill factor as it did nerd factor. People laughed and were amazed at the same time. I loved it, lol

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    Lemmy.world removes its rules against discrimination
  • I just replied this to another commenter, but that's a bad faith argument. The ToS also says to not engage in illegal activity. The admonishment of Nazi's and Racists is an admonishment of illegal evil.

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    Lemmy.world removes its rules against discrimination
  • That's a bad faith argument. The ToS also says to not engage in illegal activity. The admonishment of Nazi's and Pedophiles is an admonishment of illegal evil.

    Your inclusion of Republicans is a bit of an extreme juxtaposition. Feel free to admonish the individual evil views of Republicans, but to discriminate against Republicans purely for their association is rightly against ToS.

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    FCC moves ahead with Title II net neutrality rules in 3-2 party-line vote
  • T-Mobile users; be aware that T-Mobile has prepared for this and are trying to automatically transition grandfathered accounts with unlimited everything into their new plans.

    I'm not 100% sure if the coverage of the new plans are technically worse, but they're definitely more expensive. And I wouldn't be surprised if the new plans had contact language to do a rug pull in the future.

    You need to opt out of the transition.

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    Lemmy.world removes its rules against discrimination
  • In my opinion this is actually better than the CoC. The only thing "missing" is the definition of which qualities you shouldn't discriminate against. But that's now generalized into "groups of people".

    I still can't discriminate against people based on any qualification. Hell, I technically can't discriminate against "pineapple on pizza eaters".

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  • www.rivianforums.com Standard Dual Motor does not get new Gauge View

    UPDATE: Service confirmed that Gauge view is only available for Quad motor and performance dual motor. They didn’t make it available for standard dual motor. Hi, has anyone with a dual motor config received the latest update -2023.38? If yes, are you able to see the Gauge view? I am not and...

    Update (2023-10-20 @ 3:22 PST) - Wassym has announced they are now adding the feature to Dual Motor vehicles: https://old.reddit.com/r/Rivian/comments/17bpwpg/according_to_at_least_one_user_standard_dual/k5pdgee/

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    What's your favorite Lemmy frontend/UI?
  • I'm still rocking Jerboa on Android. It has been totally inoffensive, and I'll probably just stick with it until it offends me somehow.

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    When a user is banned on one Lemmy federated instance, are they banned on all federated instances?
  • As far as I understand;

    A user is specific to one instance. In order to interact with the fediverse on that specific account, they need to log into that instance. If they're banned from that instance, they cannot log in and interact with the rest of the fediverse.

    There's nothing stopping them from logging into an alt, whether on that same instance or on another instance.

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    Temporary (mid-term) closure for forest-fire not allowed?
  • Not really tricky at all. Especially if they limit the expiration date to be within the gap of the current closure logic (min 3-6 months).

    Especially "especially" if they made the expiration date a new field, one that offline users could ignore, and navsoftware could use imperatively.

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    Temporary (mid-term) closure for forest-fire not allowed?
  • Not too difficult, I imagine. Especially if it's a default field in the UI under Access.

    As for the companies making the nav software itself, I'm sure they'd love to implement temporary closures.

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    Temporary (mid-term) closure for forest-fire not allowed?
  • Hmm, OSM is perhaps the biggest base for alternative navigational software. Seems like a huge design flaw.

    I'm obviously oblivious to the implementation difficulties, but it seems like it should be extremely simple to add something akin to a "temporarily closed until" field, so that uses can set and forget, and it'll resolve itself without a secondary edit.

    That way, offline users can ignore this field, and nav software must use it.

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  • Hey guys.

    There's a highway that connect the coast to inland, and without it drivers have a 4-hour detour. It has been closed for the past month while a forest fire has been fought by lots of fire crews. It's been burning since August 15th, so over a month now actually.

    They've finally mitigated the fire enough that they are temporarily re-opening the highway, however it's remaining closed 8am - 4pm Mon-Fri so that the firemen are not blocked by congestion. When it's not closed between those hours, only 1 lane is open and traffic is led by patrol cars. There is no ETA for a full re-opening.

    I went to go apply a condition, when I realized that no one had actually closed the road in the first place. So I added something like "conditional=no @ (Mon-Fri 8:00-16:00)" (I forget the exact syntax).

    A day later, someone came in and reverted the change saying "the consensus is that only changes lasting 3 or more months should be made. There are people who download these maps for offline use. So no temporary closures."

    But, the DOT of both states this fire is affecting are begging drivers to stop using GPS to the coast on this route - people are driving into active fire zones.

    Does concession for offline users actually supersede safety?

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    www.rivianforums.com 200 miles (by flight) from closest Service Center is the confirmed Delivery Eligibility Area

    I saw someone comment that the Rivian website said their ZIP is not eligible for delivery; too far away. This is the first I've heard of this tool on the site (sorry if I'm late to the party). But for me, if I'm logged in and try to configure a NEW R1T, I'm asked what my ZIP code is. I'm then...

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    I bought my son a Mindstorms Inventor set back in like February 2021 thinking we'd be able to buy cool expansions for like at least a decade. But, he was a little too young both to build and program, so it's collected dust since then.

    He recently expressed interest in it again, and so we built one of the 5 robots. But, he doesn't want to disassemble it to make anything else. So I was just going to buy an expansion set.

    Well... I just saw that the whole IP was discontinued like a year ago... So I'm trying to find parts that are compatible with the hub, so I can see about getting them individually.

    When I look on lego.com and open listings for individual parts, I see "Connect to the 88016", but I'm wondering if other parts will work (such as Color and Distance Sensor 88007, which says it's compatible with the 88009 Hub, but not explicitly the 88016 large hub).

    So I guess two questions:

    1. Are every motor/sensor with male plugs that physically fit into 88016 compatible with it (and with the Scratch software)
    2. Is there a master list of compatible motors/sensors for 88016

    Edit / Follow-Up: are the Spike parts compatible? (45678)

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    I already have a Harmony M. I bought it over a decade ago; it's my first and only pedal. I was interested to see if they revised it and gave it some modern features, but it looks like they've fully discontinued it. I'm not well educated on what to look for.

    I wad curious if you guys have any knowledge/recommendations of modern MIDI controlled pedals (or perhaps any non-foot-interacted musical equipment) that offers vocal harmonies, and maybe other niceties like looping and whatnot.

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    My take on a lane balancer, and a 2-belt overflow balancer. These could probably be optimized, but they have proven useful (although a bit unconventional)

    So first off, here's my lane balancer. As far as I know this allows 100% throughput (just a bit big).

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    And here's what I'm calling a 2-Belt Overflow Balancer. It will keep the inputs on their output belt (top stays on top, bottom stays on bottom), and will only actually balance between the two if either are backed up.

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    And lastly, here's two lane balancers, followed by the overflow balancer:

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    My (newish) 30-min dial timer for my bathroom lights keeps sticking. I've been told that some silicone based lubricant should be safe to spray into the mechanism. Am I going to burn down my house?

    To clarify; I have not yet sprayed anything into the dial mechanism.

    This used to be a light switch, but my son kept leaving it on. So I swapped it out for one of these dials about 2 years ago. Now it seems to be getting stuck around the 10-min mark and being left on all day.

    I'd prefer not to replace this dial again; the house is old and the wiring in that receptacle was already pretty hard to work with. But I mean I'm not going to burn my house down in an effort to save myself 10 minutes and $10.

    Is it safe to use a silicone based spray on it?

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    Funny that the first post on this Microsoft community is an emoji request, lol. But hey... gotta start somewhere.

    I would genuinely use this all the time.

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    I couldn't figure out how to message the mods (or even individual users) on my app. A space to discuss the survey and your post would be nice.

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    Edit: Got mod approval to keep this up

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    I'm seeing this on sale at the moment. I don't care about bleeding edge speed; I'm used to SATA SSD speeds. Is this thing decent?

    I feel like there's a catch.

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    In the middle of my spawn base

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    Looking out towards my elevated rail network

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    Birds Eye of my Spawn Base

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    My Turbo Fuel power plant (~27 GW)

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    New plastic factory WIP in the distance (4,400/min)

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    Plastic factory up close (second level)

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    There's a specific comment I'm trying to reply to in the lemmy.world/c/games community, agreeing with how much I love a game they mentioned. But after drafting the message, on mobile it just acts like I haven't pressed the button. On desktop, there's and endless loading circle.

    I tried posting the comment before bed, and again this morning, same issue.

    I was able to make a top-level comment in another post.

    I did post something controversial so maybe they blocked me (although it doesn't look like they commented on my controversial post). But I don't even know if that limits replies.

    The only other thing I can think of is they're a kbin.social user.

    Does any of this explain why I can't reply? If they did block me, would I expect to see some sort of error message? Or should I expect the endless loading circle?

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